been absent quite a while now! I've all but given up, but I just moved to London (one of those life-changing ventures) and am still looking for a flat/room. Plus all of my tools and parts are still sitting in Vienna waiting to be shipped here, so as much as I'd love to get going on some more Lunetta (and other) projects, I'm still forced to exercise patience!

Hope to be back in action soon! And good luck/success to all of you lucky ones who are actually able to built stuff!

For many years I lived in London, but for various reasons, I ended up in Aldershot (which is not too far away). Hope that you settle in soon and can get back to the noise making! JingleJoe's gone very quiet lately, but he also said he was moving, so he probably has more urgent things to do at the moment.

Found a flat and am slowly but steadily making progress towards a general direction of 'normality'! (;

will be going back to Arghstria for a week at the beginning of December and then take care of having my electronics equipment shipped over here.

On that topic - does anyone here know of any 'walk in' stores (chains, etc.) here in London where I could get a few parts/breadboard, new soldering station (which I'll need anyways), etc.
Or anything - apart from looking at charitiy shops in the hope of stumbling upon some lucky finds - that might be of interest?
If so, thanks in advance.

Meanwhile I'll be starting to get back to do some theoretical learning again and have the occasional session of delighting myself with some schematics-pr0n!

Looks like I won't make it in time to be an official part of this years Lunetta Challenge (may have been a bit too optimistic on that), but then again, it's always good to challenge oneself, innit!

When I left London, the main walk-in store seemed to be Maplin Electronics, which had a good range of (largely overpriced) components. Now, they seem to have become a gadget shop and their electronic component range is VERY limited (and still overpriced). They do have some reasonably priced breadboards and soldering equipment though. Use the link to find the one that's closest to you:

Good for obsolete components (e.g. the 4006 shift register) but you pay more for them because they're obsolete and the prices keep rising the rarer they get.

There may be smaller electronic shops around in London, but as I don't know exactly where you are, I can't help too much. I knew of Direct Electronics which is in Manor Park, east London, but their website seems to be in the process of being built, so I can't see what they sell really.

I'm in the west at/near Shepherd's Bush for the time being.
checked out the nearest Maplin at Hammersmith. (and their website)
might be ok to quickly get some parts (given they have it), but yes, they seem somewhat pricey.
as far as tools/breadboards etc. go it looks ok though!
I guess for future purchase of parts and more I'll rather rely on mailorder!

guess I'll wait until after next week when I'll be sending all the parts I already have over from the 'old homestead'. (I went on a pretty exhaustive spending spree before moving anyways, so it wouldn't make much sense to go spending again, as London is expensive enough and my savings are dwindling as it is.)

But I thought that it was grim up north Actually, it's probably grimmer (is that a word?) where I live...

Gary

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Whoa whoa whoa hold your horses, never believe album titles, I didn't say go to Scotland or anything drastic like that just further north, around liverpool / york. You can rent a house here for the price of one room in london._________________As a mad scientist I am ruled by the dictum of science: "I could be wrong about this but lets find out"

Whoa whoa whoa hold your horses, never believe album titles, I didn't say go to Scotland or anything drastic like that just further north, around liverpool / york. You can rent a house here for the price of one room in london.

...or a broom cupboard in Knightsbridge. And let's face it, who doesn't want to live in a broom cupboard in Knightsbridge.

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